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This book is utterly worthless in every conceivable way. It is a mystery to me why Springer have brought disgrace upon themselves by publishing this inept drivel. A complete account of Anglin's incompetence would require a review as thick as the book itself, but hopefully a few deterring examples will suffice. First, there are many blatant factual errors, e.g.: "There were five planets (or so Kepler thought) and five regular polyhedra. This could not be an accident!" (p. 158) Since Kepler's work on Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are mentioned on the same page, one wonders whether it is Mercury, Venus or the Earth that Anglin imagines Kepler to have been ignorant of. Other statements cannot even be called false since they are such ludicrous nonsense, e.g.: "Just as many people before Lobachevsky thought that Euclid's parallel postulate was a kind of sacred truth, so many people before Hamilton thought that the law of commutativity for multiplication was ineluctable. For us it is a commonplace that this law need not hold, since we have a ready example of noncommutativity in matrix multiplication." (p. 195) The notion that there is some sort of "law" out there about commutativity of multipl

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Author

William S Anglin

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780387942803

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Mathematics